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The Battle of Golden Spurs

by Scott McPherson March 11, 2022

The political and social order of the Middle Ages was feudalism. Land ownership was the pinnacle of wealth and power, and from it was derived, at least for men, the obligation of service to a liege lord as a knight in battle. Not even high birth could replace the importance of land. Without land, a human ...

Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better

by John W. Whitehead March 9, 2022

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Let me tell you about the state of our nation: things are getting worse, ...

When the Pentagon Wanted to Nuke Russia

by Douglas Horne March 8, 2022

The following is an excerpt from FFF's book JFK's War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated by Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. On July 20, 1961, at a National Security Council meeting, JFK was compelled to consider the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear strike ...

State Marijuana Bills Are a Far Cry from Marijuana Freedom

by Laurence M. Vance March 7, 2022

Although many states and territories have legalized the medical or recreational use of marijuana, the federal government still classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) with “a high potential for abuse,” “no currently accepted medical use,” and “a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug under medical supervision.” The possession ...

Privatize Infrastructure

by Scott McPherson March 4, 2022

Two seemingly unrelated commentaries, from separate sources and published two weeks apart, reveal everything wrong with expensive (and never-ending) infrastructure spending and provide a glimpse at the reasons government shouldn't be in that business to begin with. Better understanding of government's proper role in the lives of a free people might also help with the issue ...

Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom

by John W. Whitehead March 2, 2022

“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of ...

The Power to Assassinate

by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2022

The power to assassinate has become so deeply entrenched within the national-security branch of the federal government that hardly anyone gives it a second thought. State-sponsored assassinations now occur on a regular basis, especially in the Middle East. Most everyone, especially the mainstream press, treats them in a nonchalant, ho-hum way. Hardly anyone questions where this extraordinary power to ...

Corrupt Federal Statistics Cover Endless Cons

by James Bovard March 1, 2022

Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Joe Biden and other Democrats perennially invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their COVID-19 mandates and policies. But the same shenanigans and willful omissions that have characterized COVID data have perennially permeated other federal programs. The rule of experts? During his update on his Winter COVID Campaign in December, ...

The Libertarian Brand

by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2022

While U.S. presidential elections are held every four years, U.S. senators serve a six-year term, and members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected every two years. A midterm election is an election where the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are up for election, but the president is not. These elections always occur two ...

Paternalists Plan a New International Political Consensus

by Richard M. Ebeling March 1, 2022

The political paternalists and the social engineers are giddy with hope and anticipation. They are confident that their day has, once again, arrived. The era of even bigger government has returned, and any remaining free-market system is simply out of date. They are full of promises and plans to set the world right, as long as they and the ...

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 2

by George Leef March 1, 2022

Part 1 | Part 2 With the expansion of federal loans, the cost of attending college began to increase dramatically. College administrators realized that they could charge students more, since most of them were availing themselves of money that the government dangled in front of them. Tuition and fees rose much faster than the rate of inflation. President Reagan’s ...

Thus Always To Tyrants

by Scott McPherson February 25, 2022

In 2018, U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) made headlines when he casually referred to “nukes” as a reasonable way to arbitrate a dispute with millions of Americans who might resist enforcement of a federal ban on the private ownership of semiautomatic rifles. “It's not the 18th century,” he snarked, dismissing the notion that armed citizens were in ...